Widening educational wage gap in South Korea

  • 6 years ago
The wage gap between high school graduates and college graduates here in Korea is wider than the OECD average.
According to the Ministry of Education’s analysis of the “OECD’s Education at a Glance 2018” report on Septembe....r 11th, wages of university graduates were one-point-five times more than that of high school students in 2016.
That gap is 5 percentage points higher than the OECD average.
Those who had finished graduate school earned twice as much on average.... as high school graduates,,,,, with a gap 7 percentage points wider than the OECD average.

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